On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:07:27PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:33:40PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes. Merge is liable to be trickier since there are a couple of > > different possible sets of semantics, but that's much more likely to be > > an operation performed by the regular maintenance team than by a > > drive-by uploader, so that doesn't worry me too much. > > Well, in a perfect wold, people would be able when they do a NMU e.g. > to commit into a public branch with a known location, and the regular > maintenance team will be the one that would merge it back into the > packaging mainline.
With the consent of the maintainer, the public branch with the known location could be identical to the packaging mainline (à la collab-maint). But in any case, I was actually referring to merging new upstream versions into Debian, not to merging work done by non-maintainers, although I didn't express myself very clearly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
